Let's talk about how you maximize farming efficiency

I was having a discussion with some of my SWTOR guildies about looting items during a farming run, which I found pretty interesting and helpful.

With the recent updates and changes to the economy, however, I am interested to hear about what you guys do now.

Personally I I pick up:

• All yellows ilvl62 or higher
• All yellow amulets and rings regardless of level
• All gems/tomes/potions, as long as it's within like 1 second of walking distance or so
• All ilvl61 or higher weapons
• All legendaries
• Gold within 1 second of walking, as long as it looks decent.
• While walking to my loot I'll scan any blues, but it's a super fast glance (maybe .5 seconds for everything).

Unless the other stats are good, I typically vendor:

• Any gloves without crit chance
• Any boots without run speed
• Anything less than 60AR
• Any helmet without a socket
• Any weapon under 900 DPS (lots exceptions with crit damage, LOH, and socketed weapons)

For my AH techniques, I typically:

• AH anything that I think is worth over 50k.
• Look up what other people are selling slightly inferior items for, and then price mine lower.
• Almost never do a straight-auction (no-buyout), because people are impatient and so am I.
• Sell many of a similar type at once. This makes price look-ups way faster. (i.e. selling 5 gloves at once, so I don't have to keep switching item types when looking up prices.)
• Anything I can't sell the first time get's priced reduced up to 50%. Exceptions are 5m+ valed items, in which case -20% max.
• Anything I know is good buy wont sell I RMAH for it's gold equivalent.

My biggest problem is that I save too much to sell and my stash is too full of things that wont sell. I need to rethink my "keep" rules.

How do you approach your farming? Do you pick up all the rares? Only rares above a certain ilevel? Do you bother with blues?

Posted in: farming, gold making